Octopus Books’ first of two poetry books with Heather Christle, The Difficult Farm, is now available in its 3rd printing and it comes in a brand new color! It looks like we’re calling it coral. If you buy it this week, I bet we’ll be so happy for you that we’d sneak a complimentary book title in there. Or if you have the yellow one and the blue one, why stop now?
Check out the composer, Eve Beglarian, performing a poem of mine, “Testy Pony” from Fjords vol. 1, at Abrons Arts Center in New York City this January.
In the cover story about Kristen Stewart (of The Twilight Saga, and the forthcoming On The Road, etc) in the new June issue of Elle, on stands now, Stewart is followed around in a bookstore while she shops for new reading material. At one point, the clerk recommends a book of mine to her, apparently: “‘This is a young poet who lives in Portland,’ she says, laying another one on her (Stewart) ‘He’s a surrealist poet, but like, really sincere about it. He’s actually traveling right now with a puppetry troupe. I’ll read the first poem to you…’” Later in the article, Stewart is quoted as saying “All of this shit sounds really good” as she then “takes on the load” and is “ready to bounce” at the checkout line. I’m going to go watch one of her films now maybe.
Happy Memorial Day
Check out my new ride, a 1980 Raleigh Grand Prix. I rescued it and put a bunch of new parts on it. Now I got two bikes, so when you visit me in PDX, we can leave my neighborhood.
BBXII. This time we get bad at Valentines. Friday, June 1. 9pm. Caryl Pagel, Bianca Stone, Mark Leidner, and Emily Pettit. Put the poems in you, then shake them out with the djs afterward.
Here are four of the illustrations by Ian Huebert from a future book of poems we’re working on called The Book of Joshua.
I’m making a little film about the Fjords tour with Manual Cinema and I have a lot of outtakes. Here’s a little something that won’t make it in, but it is a reminder of pure joy from a few months ago. Here’s the recipe: Janaka Stucky, my van, Will Oldham, a dirty sock, a book, late March sun, and Mississippi back roads.
I’m reading poems with musicians Jeff Sielaff and Toning for the Outset Series tomorrow night at 8 at the Revival Drum Shop. Bring a $5 bill and leave your bad attitude at the door.
My mom, Nancy, has owned and operated the Olive Branch, a small business in Council Bluffs, IA, for over ten years now. I’m proud of her. She tells me her polish pottery is selling really well right now. Maybe you should buy some. Happy Mother’s Day!
Some day maybe I’ll tell you about what happened here.
BBXI. See Bad Blood watch you from the bright window.
My most recent contributions to the game Out for a Smoke at Beulahland. See past results here. If you want me to send you some of Beulahland’s Out for a Smoke coasters, let me know. You could send them back to me and I’d post them and that’d be fun.
On Saturday in Boise, I shared a stage with The True Wheel, a poetry band consisting of Karena Youtz and Doug Martsch. Every night since I’ve been dreaming a bull is watching me from the cliffs in the east, waiting to usher me into the dark.
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